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Need a Bit more change in the extraction of name from email address
<CFSet variables.extracted =REMatch("""[^""]+""" , """The randhawa"" <myselfrandhawa@yahoo.com>
<CFDump var= "#variables.extracted#" label ="Email Address">
Currently it is showing as:
"The randhawa"
i want it to be as:
The randhawa
removing the quotes, please guide
<CFDump var= "#variables.extracted#" label ="Email Address">
Currently it is showing as:
"The randhawa"
i want it to be as:
The randhawa
removing the quotes, please guide
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Lookbehind is not supported in CF.
You may get by with the following, but it will fail if you have any text with a quote before it. For example, the following:
"This is awesome!!"; "The randhawa" <myselfrandhawa@yahoo.com>
would return
This is awesome!!
You may get by with the following, but it will fail if you have any text with a quote before it. For example, the following:
"This is awesome!!"; "The randhawa" <myselfrandhawa@yahoo.com>
would return
This is awesome!!
<CFSet variables.extracted=REMatch("[^""]+(?="")", """The randhawa"" <myselfrandhawa@yahoo.com>") />
<CFDump var=#variables.extracted# label="Email Address" />
I'm always disappointed whenever I find a new language/editor that doesn't fully support lookaround :)
Maybe two regex operations would be better:
<CFSet variables.extracted=REMatch("""[^""]+", """The randhawa"" <myselfrandhawa@yahoo.com>") />
<CFSet variables.extracted=REReplace(variables.extracted[1],"""","") />
<CFDump var=#variables.extracted# label="Email Address" />
>> I'm always disappointed whenever I find a new language/editor that doesn't
>> fully support lookaround :)
Yeah, that's one failing in the basic regex functionality. But you could easily use the underlying java, which IIRC does support it ;-)
>> fully support lookaround :)
Yeah, that's one failing in the basic regex functionality. But you could easily use the underlying java, which IIRC does support it ;-)
Since it all compiles to java anyways, why is there such a difference between the CF regex and the Java?
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